A battleground state — sometimes known as a swing state — has a population of voters who are almost evenly divided politically heading into the election. While many states vote fairly consistently for either Democrats or Republicans, both parties see a chance to win in the battlegrounds and inv...
Polls show that Republican and Democrats are more divided than ever beforeMichal Kranz
In the coming years, though, that calculus might have to change, since the growing size of the country’s nonreligious population could make these voters more difficult for Democrats to ignore. “I think in future elections we’re going to see more of an effort to reach a s...
(党派偏见)and politics,as Sinclair Broadcasting acquires more affiliates.Atthe same time,American voters and political elites are morepolarized than ever.Republicans and Democrats occupy not only theirown ideological camps,but also their own sets of basic facts,42 whetherthose facts are rootedin ...
Pros: Ryan would present himself as someone able to connect with white working class voters in the Midwest. He has hired former Bernie Sanders adviser Pete D’Alessandro to help him make introductions in Iowa. Cons: His attempt at ousting Pelosi after the 2016 election fell short and there’...
Maine, Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona, Michigan Alabama: These are the biggest battleground states that Democrats and Republicans are targeting in the battle for control of the Senate in 2020. There are 35 seats up for election in 2020, and Democrats are hoping to crack the GOP's slim 53...
States have established rules, in part, to avoid any hint that observers will harass or intimidate voters. There is a long history of whites intimidating and preventing Blacks from voting in the South. And the Republican Party had been prohibited from employing poll monitors until recently ...
Finally, there are the Republican voters. The GOP is more and more a party of disaffected non-college-educated white people— especially men and those over age 50. And as the Republican Party has traded its younger, college-educated white people — especially women — for the Democrats’ non...
Seven Republican senatorsvoted to convictformer President Trump on the charge of incitement to insurrection, joining Democrats to make it it a far more bipartisan vote than Mr. Trump's first impeachment trial. But the final vote of 57-43 fell short of the 67 votes that would have been needed...
She added: “But Mr. Santos’ statement in there was just saying that he spoke with Speaker McCarthy and made this decision on his own.” Small Business Committee Chairman Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas, said that he thinks Santos “probably made the right decision” to step down ...